Sodium sulfur battery in China

Country State Grid Corporation (China State Grid Corp., known as: national grid), said last week that the company has developed a high energy storage level can be used batteries, sodium sulfur, and thus become a major energy market-wide storage, a major participant.

 

Storage of large scale energy has recently become the subject of investment in clean energy, because the battery capacity can be resolved wind and solar and other renewable forms of energy facing problems stability.

 

A large market scale energy storage technology is an emerging market with high intensity. With the national grid to join this market start-ups and established firms will face significant competition and experienced.

 

Kai Chong peacemakers Venture Management (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (Weichuang Qiming Venture Capital Management (Shanghai) Co.) Clean Energy Capital Partners, said Zhang Yong, the importance of energy storage is increased, the effective promotion of the network National is very exciting.

 

National Grid did not answer the question about the Laptop battery to requests for comment.

 

An understanding of where the battery industry, investors said it could not determine the national network may develop can be put into commercial technology of the production scale. He said the cell of the national grid is more like an R & D project.

 

He said that some countries with large-scale energy technology storage companies are in cooperation with the national electricity grid, hoping to introduce the technology on the market.

 

National Grid is not only one of two companies of China’s largest grid power management, China’s largest manufacturer of power equipment, which means that the company has a strong industrial capacity.

 

At present, over the area of sulfur battery sodium is a leading manufacturer NGK Insulators Ltd. of Japan. The company is the world for a number of pilot projects in small scale to supply the Dell U4873 battery. For example, based in Columbus, Ohio, United States utilities Q (American Electric Power Co. Inc.) were used NGK Insulators of sodium-sulfur batteries to determine its technical performance.

 

But some other companies are trying to undermine the status of new technologies NGK Insulators. For example, General Electric Company (General Electric Co.) has invested about 100 million U.S. dollars, Niskayuna, New York, the creation of the cell R & D institutions, the goal is sodium sulfur batteries.

 

These investors have begun to set foot in this area, there are the three largest companies of American venture capitalists invest in projects in North America and China, the battery. Draper Fisher Jurvetson to invest in China-based Prudent Energy Inc., Intel Capital (Intel Capital) invested in the electricity companies of China NetPowerTech Co., and VantagePoint Venture Partners has invested in hp Pavilion dv2000 battery manufacturers in North America Premium Power Corp.

 

Other technology developers, such as a company A123 Systems Inc. and listed BYD Company Limited (BYD Co., known as: actions BYD) that the electricity market to give them the lithium-ion battery technology and opportunities. Lithium traditional applications of ion battery is the automobile.

 

The American Society of reflection Electric Power Research Institute, said the electricity market should be added transportation markets, companies like A123 Systems lithium-ion battery technology, a different arena.

 

Clean Technology Insight reported earlier, lithium-ion toshiba PA3191U-3BRS battery maker Valence Technology Inc. working with the European power generation and transmission company National Grid PLC and Red Electrica de Espana cooperation in trying to develop a battery large scale power.

 

However, some industry executives electrical energy does not think the battery technology can rechargeable batteries reliably. San Francisco-based Pacific Gas & Electric Co. ’s senior vice president of energy markets Fong Wan, held last week, the Dow Jones Alternative Energy Innovation Conference, said he did not see the successful implementation of technology to large-scale battery. He said PG & E seeks to expand the technique of pumping energy storage using compressed air energy storage is still under study.

 

While National Grid is the largest company in market power, but industry observers say, this does not mean that the national network will remove all the VGP-BPS10 possibilities of other companies.

 

McKinsey & Company (McKinsey & Co., Inc.) Director Jonathan A. Shanghai Woetzel said that Chinese enterprises will adopt the best technology available.